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XML in Office: Introductory Discussion
(Priscilla Walmsley and Charles Goldfarb) This chapter is an overview of the XML features of Office. We discuss the XML-enabled Office products – Word, Excel, Access, FrontPage and the newly introduced InfoPath – in the context of several information sharing scenarios.
Database Performance Tuning on AIX
(Budi Darmawan, Gary Groenewald, Allan Irving, Sergio Henrique Soares Monteiro and Keirnan M. Snedeker) This IBM Redbook is designed to help system designers, system administrators, and database administrators design, size, implement, maintain, monitor, and tune a Relational Database Management Syst
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A Guide to Linux Filesystem Mastery for Oracle DBAs
(Sheryl Calish) Although the kernel is the heart of Linux, files are the main vehicles through which users interact with the operating system. This is especially true of Linux, because in the UNIX tradition, it uses the file I/O mechanism to manage hardware devices as well as with data files. Un
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(Hassan Fahimi) Microsoft SQL Server is built in such a way that it can be managed by Database Administrators (DBA) with a wide range of skills and experience. SQL Server masks the complexity of managing a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) to make it more appealing to administrators wit
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(Paul C. Zikopoulos) When IBM donated the code for its Cloudscape database software to the open source community last summer, the press and the developer community took notice. It’s easy to see why. At the same time it released a technology preview of the commercial offering, called Cloudscape v
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(Sanjay Mishra) One of the challenges of today’s distributed business environments is the sharing of information among a multitude of applications and databases. As the number of applications grows, you end up with several databases, which may even be from different vendors. Sharing information in s
Data Conversion between Microsoft Access and MySQL
The importance and widespread use of the Internet has changed the information-processing world. Many enterprises in the world publish their information on-line as they need to access, process and exchange large amounts of information primarily through the World Wide Web. Surely the way your dat